0730 - When the Rebbe Changed or Added to What He Said Previously Part 1 - Mitzvos Considered Chukim

00:01 We know that many times the meforshim or the poskim would write something and then later on change and change their mind and write differently. We find that even by the meforshim when they say pshat in Gemara, things like that, even by poskim when it comes to halacha that they would pasken halacha one way and then later on we'd find that they would change their mind and rule differently. Even by the Alter Rebbe himself, we find that he wrote the Shulchan Aruch, but then he wrote Madur Basra. He started, he wrote the first four simanim Madur Basra, then he wrote Madur Basra in the back of the Shulchan Aruch as printed that changed a lot of the psakim that were before. The siddur, there's a lot of changes of the way he paskened the Shulchan Aruch. So I want to point out that sometimes by the Rebbe we find the same way he said one way and later on he said differently, which is like a Madur Basra what he said before, but not a Madur Basra just to add more than he said before, but to change even what he said before. So I'm going to give a few examples. First I'll give one example. In the Likut that came out, the Likut HaSichas Likut that came out for Parshas Matas and Massei Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, the Sicha there was a Sicha from Tov Shin Chovov and there in Ha'orah nine it says be-negei the inyan of nedarim and he says that nedarim is

01:23 called chukah. In Chumash it says, "Ele ha-chukim," it says, "Chukim be-negei bein ish le-ishto bein av le-bitei," the dinim of nedarim be-negei a father that he could nullify the neder of his daughter, a husband the neder of his wife, et cetera, et cetera. The Torah refers to it as chukim. Chukah we know refers to those things that have no reason, mitzvahs that we don't understand. So the Rebbe writes that even though on the general mitzvah, even this pr- this idea that a father can nullify the neder of his daughter and a mo- a wi- husband the neder of his wife, bederech klal there is a reason behind it. He quotes the reason. Nevertheless, it's called a chukah because the details we don't know the reason. There are so many details that we don't know why. And that's what it said there in the Sicha that came out for Shabbos Parshas Matas and Massei Tov Shin Lamed Gimel. That farbrengen of Matas Massei Lamed Gimel, that means the Shabbos after the Likut came out, the Likut would always come out right before Shabbos like on Friday. So that Shabbos the Rebbe spoke about it and the Rebbe said that really it's not so because there are many mitzvahs that are not called chukim because the general idea behind the mitzvah is understood even though the details are not understood and he gave an example. There is many example, but the Rebbe gave one example. If a sher, an ax, kills a Goyish slave, an Eved Kneini

02:46 from another Yid, he has to pay 30 sela, davka 30 sela no matter how, what's the value of the Eved. The idea that you have to pay generally understood, but the detail is not and it's still not called a chukah. So from there we see that what the Rebbe writes in that ha'orah that because the peratim are not understood it's called a chukah is not so. And after the Rebbe said that, after that was added to this ha'orah and I added a few words. I don't remember if the, as the Rebbe if they should add it or the Rebbe himself said that they should add that they saw fit. And later on when the Sefer came out, this Sicha came out in the Sefer Likutey Sichos Chelek Yud Gimel Parshas Matos page one zero five, ha'orah nine was added, "Avo ra'ey Sichas Parshas Matos Massei Tov Shin Lamed Gimel." So the whole ha'orah is there the way the Rebbe s- wrote it before that because the peratim are not understood it's considered a chukah and then it says, "Avo," this is added after the farbrengen, "Avo ra'ey Sichas Parshas Matos Massei Tov Shin Lamed Gimel." So he changed. Interesting that the chure if he changed and he felt that this svora is not a good svora, he should have said, "Well, when you come to print the Sicha, erase that ha'orah." He didn't. Obviously, this makes sense also. It's just the other svora is better so to speak and that's called a Madur Basra. So

04:13 here we see one example of something that the Rebbe had one idea and then later on he changed and it was added to the ha'orah that you should look to the Sicha Parshas Matos Massei Tov Shin Lamed Gimel. And I will continue the next voice notes to give a few more examples.